The history of Singapore has been closely intertwined with immigration. Most Singaporean’s forefathers were immigrants. Till today, they continue to come, enticed by the strong governance, transparent work culture, equal job opportunities, safe environment and cohesive social structure that Singapore is known for. Singaporeans both, ‘old’ and ‘new’ have worked hand in hand to make the Little Red Dot an economic power to reckon with in the world. Singapore’s ability to attract the best talent and use it to its competitive advantage has been the hallmark of this nimble nation which is quick to adapt to changing situations. This book endeavours to showcase the journey of 30 naturalized Singaporeans, who come endowed with skills and talents that have benefitted the country. They have adapted to the social and religious fabric of Singapore, nurtured respect for its culture and traditions and honoured its history while forging connections within the community. They have thus made their journey to becoming Singaporean a meaningful one.
The history of Singapore has been closely intertwined with immigration. Most Singaporean's forefathers were immigrants. Till today, they continue to come, enticed by the strong governance, transparent work culture, equal job opportunities, safe environment and cohesive social structure that Singapore is known for. Singaporeans both, 'old' and 'new' have worked hand in hand to make the Little Red Dot an economic power to reckon with in the world. Singapore's ability to attract the best talent and use it to its competitive advantage has been the hallmark of this nimble nation which is quick to adapt to changing situations. This book endeavours to showcase the journey of 30 naturalized Singaporeans, who come endowed with skills and talents that have benefitted the country. They have adapted to the social and religious fabric of Singapore, nurtured respect for its culture and traditions and honoured its history while forging connections within the community. They have thus made their journey to becoming Singaporean a meaningful one.
The history of Singapore has been closely intertwined with immigration. Most Singaporean’s forefathers were immigrants. Till today, they continue to come, enticed by the strong governance, transparent work culture, equal job opportunities, safe environment and cohesive social structure that Singapore is known for. Singaporeans both, ‘old’ and ‘new’ have worked hand in hand to make the Little Red Dot an economic power to reckon with in the world. Singapore’s ability to attract the best talent and use it to its competitive advantage has been the hallmark of this nimble nation which is quick to adapt to changing situations. This book endeavours to showcase the journey of 30 naturalized Singaporeans, who come endowed with skills and talents that have benefitted the country. They have adapted to the social and religious fabric of Singapore, nurtured respect for its culture and traditions and honoured its history while forging connections within the community. They have thus made their journey to becoming Singaporean a meaningful one.
Contemporary Trends in Education: A Handbook for Educators is an enriched resource for future teachers and teacher educators working with limited resources. It provides in-depth theoretical underpinnings and discusses the planning formats and implementation schemes extending to the real classroom and the field situations. The text aims to complement the teacher educators' experiences which would feed into the respective teacher training programmes, benefitting their students and gradually add strength to school education. It is based upon course specific enrichment material for pre-service as well as in service teacher training programmes for all levels of school education.
This book discusses a broad range of cyber security issues, addressing global concerns regarding cyber security in the modern era. The growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the prevalence of mobile devices make cyber security a highly topical and relevant issue. The transition from 4G to 5G mobile communication, while bringing convenience, also means cyber threats are growing exponentially. This book discusses a variety of problems and solutions including: • Internet of things and Machine to Machine Communication; • Infected networks such as Botnets; • Social media and networking; • Cyber Security for Smart Devices and Smart Grid • Blockchain Technology and • Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security Given its scope, the book offers a valuable asset for cyber security researchers, as well as industry professionals, academics, and students.
Vikas Sharma is an established writer in the Indian writing realm. His novels, IAS Today, Love's Not Time's Fool, Raah Ke Patthar, Medicine: Light In Twilight, 498A: Fears and Dreams, Ashes and Fire, and Hope Against Hope, have been well received and thoroughly loved by the readers all over. He has been the face of productivity and optimism through the corona virus pandemic. He is a renowned name in the literary world, hailing as a well-established Researcher, Professor, Poet, and Novelist. He has over fifty research papers to his credit in national and international journals. He has also authored, Epiphanies, a famous collection of poems and short stories. He has made his own place in the writing world in a very short period of time by utilizing the pandemic as an opportunity to nurture his creativity and innovation. His novels have been included in the curriculum at many universities and colleges all over India. And many scholars have also chosen his novels for their Ph.D. and research. This inspired me to undertake this venture of critical work on Vikas Sharma's novels. This is an attempt to bring out more from his novels and provide a reference and guide to young students who study his works and make them the center for their own scholarly journey. This book is an attempt to help various students to gain a better understanding, a wider and newer perspective, and a whole new set of ideas about Vikas Sharma's novels and excel in their scholarly goals as they pursue their work on Vikas Sharma and his novels.
The development in the field of education to a great extent depends on the policies of education and its effective and efficient implementation. Recently NEP 2020 has been implemented for quality improvements in the field of education. For effective implementation it is essential to deeply imbibe and comprehend the National Education Policy 2020. Scrupulously written by learned and experienced Scholars, the book incorporates various aspects, dimensions, analysis and the upcoming challenges of NEP 2020. It is a bilingual book contains both English and Hindi research papers. This Edited Book is useful to students, teachers and teacher educators.
The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement—unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship between ecological destruction and poverty. In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar also looks to the future as she examines new developments in gene technology.
Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the posititon of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the consequences for agriculture of the global pre-eminence of Western-style scientific knowledge. In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these technologies involve and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental problems posed. Underlying her arguments is the view that the North's particular approach to scientific understanding has led to a system of monoculture in agriculture - a model that is not being foisted on the South, displacing its societies' ecologically sounder, indigenous and age-old experiences of truly sustainable food cultivation, forest management and animal husbandry. This rapidly accelerating process of technology and system transfer is impoverishing huge numbers of people, disrupting the social systems that provide them with security and dignity, and will ultimately result in a sterile planet in both North and South, In a policy intervention of potentially great significance, she calls instead for a halt, at international as well as local level, to the aid and market incentives to both large-scale destruction of habitats where biodiversity thrives and the introduction of centralised, homogenous systems of cultivation.
This book is not only give you information, but also it will transform your life. This book will help you in finding the best in you in various areas of life - Health, Finance, Relationship with self & others, Career/Business, Personal growth. It will help you in handling emotions & your mental state. How to stay always in healthy & resourceful state like peace, joyful, happiness and all other positive feelings. Also you come to know about how you go into different stages of learning, how you make decisions & take actions in your life, how you make limiting believes then how it's stops you & how you can change it. How you can grow in your life while adding goal, purpose, new healthy habit while replacing old non supporting habit. How you can achieve & live dreamful life. How one can overcome from anxiety. This book is all about above mention topics.
This book presents the subject matter tailor-made for the latest syllabus of North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) to enable its students to study the course material through a single book without having to refer to multiple sources and comprehend the subject in simple, understandable language.Key Features• Covers the syllabus of NEHU• Includes the highlights of the Indian Company Law, 2013• Explains complicated provisions in easily comprehensible language with the help of illustrations and analogies• Quotes Indian and English cases at appropriate places with a view to ensure necessary authenticity and clarity on the subject• Includes model question papers
Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity."—Wendell Berry, from the foreword Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the links between ecology, gender, and poverty. In The Vandana Shiva Reader, Shiva assembles her most influential writings, combining trenchant critiques of the corporate monopolization of agriculture with a powerful defense of biodiversity and food democracy. Containing up-to-date data and a foreword by Wendell Berry, this essential collection demonstrates the full range of Shiva's research and activism, from her condemnation of commercial seed technology, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the international agriculture industry's dependence on fossil fuels, to her tireless documentation of the extensive human costs of ecological deterioration. This important volume illuminates Shiva's profound understanding of both the perils and potential of our interconnected world and calls on citizens of all nations to renew their commitment to love and care for soil, seeds, and people.
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